Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: W3C turned 20, Typography, Mozilla/Ford Open Web Fellowship, etc

This is the 26 September - 3 October 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of  
W3C news and trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C  
Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived [1])  
[sent separately]. This digest aggregates information about W3C from  
online media, a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online  
media.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/



1) W3C and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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[Things that were tweeted frequently, things that caught my attention, etc.
  Most *recent* first]

* (1305) Milestone: 1-Oct - W3C 20th anniversary
<https://twitter.com/w3c/status/517224535419289600>
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4110>

* (50) I18N: Improving typography on the Web and in eBooks
<https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Improving_typography_on_the_Web_and_in_eBooks>

* (Also) Adobe: Drop Caps Are Beautiful, Sylvain Galineau [+ Demos]
<http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2014/10/02/drop-caps-are-beautiful/>

* (20) a11y: Carousel Concepts • Carousels • WAI Web Accessibility  
Tutorials
<https://w3c.github.io/wai-tutorials/carousels/>



2) Open Web & net neutrality
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Mozilla (30 September), The Ford Foundation and Mozilla partner to launch  
Open Web Fellowship in efforts to protect the Web
<https://advocacy.mozilla.org/open-web-fellows/>

The New York Times (28 September), With Perspective From Both Sides of His  
Desk, F.C.C. Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/business/with-perspective-from-both-sides-of-his-desk-fcc-chairman-ponders-net-neutrality.html>



3) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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9 articles since the 26-Sep Digest. A selection follows.
You may read all articles in our Press Clippings page:
   http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles

[Most recent first.
  title, source (date), link.
  Find keywords on our Press clippings page:  
http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]


    Ericsson Research releases Bowser, OpenWebRTC as open source
    telecompaper (2 October)
    http://www.telecompaper.com/news/ericsson-research-releases-bowser-openwebrtc-as-open-source--1040664


    Some pros and cons of Google’s plan to give every “thing” a URL
    Gigaom (2 October)
    https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/some-pros-and-cons-of-googles-plan-to-give-every-thing-a-url/


    20 Jahre World Wide Web Consortium (20 years World Wide Web Consortium)
    Heise online (1 October)
    http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/20-Jahre-World-Wide-Web-Consortium-2409733.html


    Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet bill of rights to ensure greater  
privacy
    The Guardian | Technology (28 September)
    http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/28/tim-berners-lee-internet-bill-of-rights-greater-privacy


    Tim Berners-Lee: People will always try to control the internet. We  
have to keep fighting for it
    London Evening Standard Online (26 September)
    http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/tim-bernerslee-some-people-will-always-try-to-control-the-internet-we-have-to-keep-fighting-for-it-9757371.html


    The Semantic Web’s Rocking, And There Ain’t No Stopping It Now
    Semanticweb.com (23 September)
    http://semanticweb.com/semantic-webs-rocking-aint-stopping-now_b44478


-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Friday, 3 October 2014 15:34:12 UTC